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A89447 A box of spikenard newly broken not so much for the preparation of the burial; as for the clearer illustration, and exornation of the birth and nativity of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus. Contained in a short and sweet discourse which was at first hinted, and occasioned through a question propounded by R.B.P. de K. Which is now answered and resloved by T.M. P. de P. Malpas, Thomas. 1659 (1659) Wing M340; Thomason E2140_2; ESTC R208367 46,250 128

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believe also in me and I verily believe it and am strongly perswaded that in doing this thing which you say you are fearful to do lest you should be the more inexcusable for your sins you shall be so far from being accused and condemned for it that it shall rather be a means to excuse you and a help to hide and cover your sins at the day of Judgment and all the harm I wish unto you or my self or to any of the dearest and nearest Friends that I have in his World is that we had no greater Crime or Offence then this to answer for at the great and terrible Day of our general and common appearance For then should we be acquitted and dismissed with that sentence of absolution I mean with that joyful and comfortable and soul-reviving sentence of Venite Benedicti Come ye blessed And for your further satisfaction herein and better confirmation of that which I have affirmed and averred Let me give you a hint and instance of it in that one and remarkable example of Mary Magdalen who though she were a notorious Malefactor and a great and grievous Sinner Luke 7. as the History Evangelical effigiates and sets her forth unto us yet hearing that Jesus sate down to meat in a Pharisee's house she presnmed and made bold to go into the house and bringing an Alablaster-Box of Oyntment she stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the Ointment Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it he spake within himself being discontented saying This man if he were a Prophet would have known who and what manner of Woman this is that toucheth him for she is a Sinner And Jesus answering said unto him Simon I have somewhat to say unto thee and he saith Master say on There was a certain Creditor who had two Debtors the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty and when they had nothing to pay He freely forgave them hoth tell me therefore which of them will love him most Simon answered and ●aid I suppose that he to whom he forgave most and he said unto him Thou hast rightly judged And he turned unto the Woman and said unto Simon Seest thou this Woman I entred into thy House Thou gavest me no water for my Feet but she hath washed my Feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head Thou gavest me no kisse but this Woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kisse my Feet My Feet with Oyl thou didst not anoint but this Woman hath anointed my Feet with Oyntment Wherefore I say unto thee Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Where the Argument is not as learned Fulk observeth and as the whole discourse of the Text makes it manifest from the Cause to the Effect but from the Effect to the Cause Many sins are forgiven her therefore she hath loved much for our Saviour had cast seven Devils out of her therefore she had good cause to love him much for to whom little is remitted he loveth little wherefore our Saviour preferrs and extolleth her kindnesse both above and before the entertainment of the Pharisees House So that if we in like manner do shew our love to Christ freely and chearfully in celebrating the memoriall of his Birth as she did in token of his Burial we shall not onely be excused but accepted as she was for as St. Mark relates the same story more briefly Mark 14. 4. When there were some that murmured at it and had indignation within themselves saying Why was this waste of the Oyntment made for it might have been sold for more then three hundred pence and have bin given to the poor But Jesus said by way of Apology for her Let her alone Why trouble you her She hath wrought a good work on me for you have the poor with you alwayes and whensoever ye will you may do them good but me you have not alwayes She hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my Body to the Burying Verily I say unto you Wheresoever the Gospel shall be preached thorow out the whole World this also that she hath done shall be spoken for a memoriall of her i. e. for a memoriall of her love of that good work that she hath bestowed upon me Wherefore as St. Austin answers some who made a question How it was possible a Virgin should bring forth a Child Fides adsit nulla quaestio remanebit So I say to you Si amor adsit timor iste removebit if you love Christ in sincerity as you ought to do then this fear will soon remove and expell such timorous Niceties and frivolous Scrupulosities out of your mind for what saith the Apostle St. John There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment or fear hath painfulnesse 1 John 4.18 And let this suffice for the answering of the seventh Argument Answer to the eighth Argument The words of the eighth Argument are these It seems to me a vain and needless thing c. To this Argument I answer first in the words of the Roman Oratour Quaedam videntur non sunt some things seem to be that which they are not for according to the Opinion of the Philosopher Quandoque sensus fallitur circa proprium Objectum sometimes the sense is deceived about its proper Object as when a Man seeth a Bush a far off he takes it to be a Man which when he cometh neer it he finds it to be no such matter even as the Man in the Gospel having received a little glimpse and glimmering of his sight thought he saw men walk like Trees i.e. he took them to be as bigg as Trees because the Organ of his Eye being not sufficiently cleansed he could not otherwise discern them Mark 8.24 But it seems to you to be a vain and needless thing What Is it a vain and needless thing to serve God It seems there were some who both thought and spake so in Malachi's time Mal. 3.13 14. but their gross error and their madness was reproved by the Prophet even as St. Peter tells us that Balaam was rebuked for his Iniquity the dumb Asse speaking with Man's veice forbade the madness of that false Propher because he loved the wages of Unrighteousness went beyond his permission being blinded with the hope of Bribes and Rewards of Divination 2 Pet. 2.16 and Is it think you a vain thing unprofitable to serve the Lord as Eliphaz the Temanite saith Job 4.7 Who ever perished being innocent So who ever waited on the Lord and went away unrewarded He that serveth himself serveth a Fool He that serveth the Devil serveth his Enemy He that serveth the World